Advantages of Heated Chemotherapy

There are two particularly important features of heated chemotherapy that make this a superior alternative to standard chemotherapy.
First, the chemotherapeutic medications are applied directly to the affected site. This means the medications are in direct contact with tissues that are affected by mesothelioma. In traditional chemotherapy, the patient is treated with chemotherapeutic medications intravenously and the patient's entire body is affected by the medications. Injecting chemotherapeutic agents directly into the peritoneum increases their concentration at the cancer site and causes less serious side effects than traditional chemotherapy treatments.
The second important feature is the heating of the medications to the approximate temperature of the human body. Heating the chemotherapeutic agents increases their ability to penetrate tissues. This is vital because traditional chemotherapy treatments do not always effectively penetrate dense tumors.